Saturday, August 21, 2010

Earth's plant life: dying on land, dying at sea

by Keith Pickering

CO2 is plant food. I know this is true, because smart Republicans like Reps. Dan Shimkus and Michele Bachmann said so. In fact, the "CO2 is plant food" meme can bring up 48,000 hits on Google.

So rising CO2 should be good for plants, right? Because a conservative argument with a patina of science just can't be wrong.

Just a couple of little flies in the ointment: land plants are dying as CO2 rises. And oceanic plants are dying as CO2 rises, too.

Earth's plant life is being killed by the heat.



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